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Contraband

2012

Baltasar Kormákur

Mark Wahlberg, Kate Beckinsale, Giovanni Ribisi, Ben Foster ...

5.7

11,738

Thriller. Action. Drama Chris Farraday (Mark Wahlberg) long ago gave up his life of crime, but after his brother-in-law, Andy (Caleb Landry Jones), messes up a drug deal for his sadistic boss, Tim Briggs (Giovanni Ribisi), Chris finds he has to slip back into his old ways—running contraband—to help Andy out of a sticky situation. Chris quickly gets a team together with his best friend, Sebastian's (Ben Foster) help, for a run to Panama, hoping to return with ... [+]

	Author	Review
United States	Joe Morgenstern The Wall Street Journal	"It's a genre film, not great art (...) but it's a thoroughly satisfying entertainment, and, in this season of lowered expectations, a nice surprise"	POS
United States	Owen Gleiberman Entertainment Weekly	"Contraband, while often grungy and far-fetched, does keep you watching. And in January, that's recommendation enough"	POS
United States	Peter Travers Rolling Stone	"Contraband (...) goes down in a sea of Hollywood clichés (...) Wahlberg could sleepwalk through this role, and does (...) Rating: ★★ (out of four)"	NEU
United States	Kyle Smith New York Post	"Contraband" aims to be dumb fun but gets only the first half right (...) Rating: ½ (out of four)"	NEG
United States	Justin Chang Variety	"This solid if disposable genre exercise maintains a hard-driving line of action and a commitment to one-damned-thing-after-another storytelling that carries it past any number of narrative speedbumps and preposterous detours"	POS

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